She is attempting to drown herself in the surf and after Elvis drags her out, he spanks her (about fifteen swats) in an attempt to prove that somebody does care about her. In the next scene she’s sitting on a bunch of pillows and joking vivaciously about it over dinner. My only gripe is that the spanking scene itself is filmed in a very dark “daylight filter” to make the scene appear to be taking place at night, making everything hard to see.